dis: FOR_ITER says it no longer pops the stack in 3.12 but it still does when the iterator ended normally

Documentation

The FOR_ITER docs in the dis module say "Up until 3.11 the iterator was popped when it was exhausted". This sounds like in 3.12+ the iterator is not popped anymore:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/cecd6012b0ed5dca3916ae341e705ae44172991d/Doc/library/dis.rst?plain=1#L1334-L1342

Instead there is a new opcode END_FOR, which takes care of popping the iterator off the stack. This surprised me because in 3.12 END_FOR is supposed to remove 2 elements from the top of the stack. But if the iterator ends normally, there will only be the iterator at the top. I tried to document my thought process in this godbolt repro.

Reading the generated code for FOR_ITER, specifically:

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/cecd6012b0ed5dca3916ae341e705ae44172991d/Python/generated_cases.c.h#L3069

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/cecd6012b0ed5dca3916ae341e705ae44172991d/Python/generated_cases.c.h#L3085-L3087

it looks like there are 2 cases:

• If the iterator ends normally, FOR_ITER pops the iterator off the stack, then it skips the next END_FOR (and in 3.13 POP_TOP) instructions.
• Otherwise (I'm not sure when that happens?), the iterator ends with both the iter and iter() on the stack, which are both popped by END_FOR (and in 3.13 POP_TOP).

Is it worth documenting the 2 different cases?

Commencez par le texte consacré à FOR_ITER dans Doc/library/dis.rst et comparez-le aux cas FOR_ITER et END_FOR de Python/generated_cases.c.h cités par l’issue. Vérifiez les chemins normal et alternatif d’épuisement de l’itérateur dans Python 3.12 et 3.13, puis mettez à jour la documentation si les deux comportements de la pile sont confirmés et peuvent être expliqués clairement.